Greenpeace France announces job cuts amid falling donations

Environmental campaigning NGO Greenpeace France announced plans on Thursday to cut 32 jobs, to compensate for a fall in donations since 2022.


Issued on: 26/03/2026 - RFI

Greenpeace France has announced plans to cut around 30 jobs due to a drop in donations. AFP - GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
                                                         

The proposal to reduce the organisation's workforce from 138 full-time equivalent positions to 106 was presented to staff representatives on 17 and 18 March.

“While Greenpeace France is funded exclusively by private donations, it has recorded weaker growth in donations in recent years... in a strained economic context,” it said in a statement.

The organisation told French news agency AFP that between 2018 and 2021, donations increased by 26 percent, but since 2022 this growth has dropped to 7 percent.

"The situation requires Greenpeace France to exercise the greatest financial caution so that it can continue its environmental protection campaigns in France and internationally,” the statement added.

The organisation is supported by more than 240,000 members, 90 percent of whom make regular donations, and raises around €31 million this way each year.

Greenpeace France said less money had been coming into the organisation over the past two years from donors, attributing the fall to rising prices in France.

Laurence Veyne, its co-executive director, told AFP: “This situation is also worsened by difficulties in reaching donors by phone. All of these factors are weakening our model, and we must take action. We have to acknowledge that this is a difficult moment for the organisation and its employees."

Veyne said Greenpeace International, to which Greenpeace France transfers up to €9 million each year to fund other offices, is not able to intervene in structural problems such as those faced by the French branch.

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